<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Business</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/business?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><description>Business</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Coal Firm Selling Land for Flight 93 Memorial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62714-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62714-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A coal company has agreed to sell 800 acres to a nonprofit group working to preserve land for a memorial for the 40 passengers and crew who died on United Flight 93.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firms Rejecting Terror Coverage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62146-2003Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62146-2003Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Most U.S. businesses aren't buying terrorism insurance because they don't feel at risk or don't want to pay for the coverage, according to some of the nation's largest providers.]]></description><author> Jackie Spinner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans Unveiled for New WTC Building]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17399-2002Nov20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17399-2002Nov20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With surrounding buildings still gouged and scarred from the collapse of the twin towers, real estate developer Larry Silverstein Wednesday unveiled plans for the first new building to be reconstructed at the World Trade Center site.]]></description><author> Christine Haughney</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, Democrats Press Cases on Insurance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40936-2002Oct3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40936-2002Oct3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The president and Senate Democrats blamed each other Thursday for holding up terrorism insurance legislation that both camps have described as vital to the economy.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Screeners Get Stranded]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40788-2002Oct3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40788-2002Oct3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the gradual rollout of federal airport screeners &#150; a role limited by Congress to U.S. citizens &#150; thousands of immigrant workers have lost not only income, but a measure of faith in their adopted home.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sept. 11 Fund Offers More Than Expected, Lawyers Say]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24947-2002Sep30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24947-2002Sep30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fourteen families of Sept. 11 victims have been offered an average of $1.75 million each in compensation from a special federal fund, their attorneys announced Monday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airlines Plead for Aid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62501-2002Sep24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62501-2002Sep24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Executives implored lawmakers to help with terrorism-related costs, which they said were sinking the industry, and key House members said they were drafting a bill to help.]]></description><author> Keith L. Alexander and Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expanded Federal Rules Target Money Laundering]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36327-2002Sep18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36327-2002Sep18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department on Wednesday issued rules aimed at money laundering that would require a wide range of businesses  including investment funds that have little oversight  to provide more information to the government.]]></description><author> Neil Irwin and Kathleen Day</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[9/11 Fund Cheating Victims, Firm Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31300-2002Sep17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31300-2002Sep17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond brokerage that lost 658 employees in the attack on the World Trade Center, says the federal victims compensation fund is cheating Cantor families out of hundreds of millions of dollars.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perjury Count Versus Charity Dismissed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15358-2002Sep13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15358-2002Sep13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Chicago yesterday dismissed perjury charges against one of the nation's largest Muslim charities and its executive director on technical grounds, but hours later federal prosecutors said they are filing new charges of obstruction of justice against them for the same conduct.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Allow Pilots to Carry Guns]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43348-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43348-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite concerns raised by the Bush administration and airlines, the Senate on Thursday voted 86-7 to allow commercial pilots to carry guns in cockpits to prevent hijackings.]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amendment to Allow Guns in Cockpits Passes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42294-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42294-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate this afternoon overwhelminging approved a measure to allow commercial airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit in an attempt to address pilot concerns that U.S. planes are still vulnerable to hijacking.]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses Draw Line On Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38213-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38213-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Many of the nation's largest and most influential businesses have quietly but persistently resisted new federal rules that would require them to make long-term security improvements.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin  and  Bill Miller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifice a Signature of Todays Travel Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38159-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38159-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A way of traveling that had become as easy and convenient as hopping a bus now begins with a series of stressful and often unpredictable tests that every airline passenger must pass.]]></description><author> Katherine Shaver</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Day for Time Out and Time Off at Area Companies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38072-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38072-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Sept. 11 approaches, area companies are working with employees to design ways to commemorate the day, keeping in mind that here, as in New York, many workers have personal connections to the terrorist attacks.]]></description><author> Amy Joyce</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSA Chief May Relax Screening Deadline]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38018-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38018-2002Sep4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Recognizing that promised airport security improvements are behind schedule, transportation security chief James M. Loy and a key senator agreed to propose select delays in the Dec. 31 baggage-screening deadline.]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Struggling to Keep Computers Secure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24191-2002Aug15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24191-2002Aug15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Security consultants entered scores of confidential military and government computers without approval this summer, exposing vulnerabilities that specialists say open the networks to electronic attacks and spying.<BR> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Robert O'Harrow Jr.</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriott to Pay $115,000 to Arab American Group]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23961-2002Aug15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23961-2002Aug15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bethesda-based Marriott International agreed Thursday to pay $115,000 and apologize to an Arab American group that alleged the hotel chain canceled its offer to host the group's annual meeting after Sept. 11, according to the U.S. Justice Department.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Airlines Uses Web to Inform Pilots of Security Alerts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A776-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A776-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/business</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:35:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American Airlines has set up a Web site to give its pilots access to government-issued security warnings, in response to criticism from its flight crews after the Richard C. Reid shoe-bomb incident in December.]]></description><author> Greg Schneider</author></item></channel></rss>
